bogey

1. 1.

   to shoot in one stroke over par

   Broadershoot

   golf

Other forms of bogey

plural

bogeys·

past tense

bogeyed·

present participle

bogeying·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bogey

What does bogey mean?

bogey means "an evil spirit". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bogey?

bogey has 2 syllables: bo-gey. The stress falls on "bo". In IPA it is /ˈboʊɡi/.

What is another word for bogey?

Close synonyms include bogy, bogie, bogy, bogie. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bogey a common word?

bogey is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.